To hate faffers everywhere!

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Why are there so many faffers -buying cinema tickets, going to the Post office etc - someone in front always has to have an issue and take twice as long as they should, drivers taking 10 minutes to get in a space 4 times the size of their car, people taking forever over a simple food order - I could go on!

I remember the toilet thread. There were loads of medical reasons for taking forever in the loo but 90% of the population can all suffer from these

One was ibs, I have ibs so it stick in my head.
The trouble is if you have ibs it can cause you to need to spend more time in the loo but it also means you can need the loo pretty urgently and you really don't want a queue to contend with.

Moln yy, I get the walking around the kitchen looking for unnamed Stuff That Is Wrong, the 'oops I forgot to take my vitamins', the 'where are my keys and wallet' (on the table in front of you), the 'did I shut the bathroom window' (yes), the 'hang on I forgot my Kindle it's upstairs and checking all the doors/windows. Honestly, by the time I've stood by the front door ready to go for at least ten minutes I'm ready to strangle him.

And this is all after the dozing in bed, spending ages on the toilet and in the shower, ironing a shirt, asking me repeatedly if the shirt/jumper combo makes him look fat, and going through his bag to make sure all the junk is present and correct. I then get asked at least twice if the door is locked and the alarm is on (even if he did it all).

And he has the cheek to say I take ages to get ready. It's a good job I love him.

Thanks for that link Lizzie it did make me giggle (not the IBS part), next time I'm in a loo queue I will now envision all the cubicles occupied by naked pooers.

Camito are you me?! That's unnervingly similar, well expect he leaves before me and says goodbye about nineteen thousand times, for about 15 minutes

Dh is a faffer and ds2 has inherited this behaviour. I often sit in the sofa watching their faffing antics as they try to get ready to go out

Airports. Oh after queuing it check in for half hour... Where did I put my passport. Security- do I need to take my shoes/ belt/ liquids out...?! Grrrrrrrr. I especially hate school holidays when business travellers disappear and clueless families appear. Harsh but true.

I do especially love the rebellion of actually going to church

The toilet thing - sometimes if the toilet is being used a lot it takes ages to refill and flush. So I think sometimes people are waiting to be able to flush?

But the rest of the faffing I totally agree on.

YADNBU, I wish I had a cattle prod some days

My two DSes were/are both breastfeeding faffers. The younger one is latched on right now having a nice feed. But he has pulled off at least 4 times to inspect my nipple, looked around wide-eyed at the bedroom where he has had every night feed for the last 4 months just to check I haven't changed the curtains or wall covers, since the last time he looked 3 hours ago, given me a heart-melty but annoying milky grin and twiddled my nipple. You're sweet, DS, but bloody well get on with it. I need to sleep!

In contrast, DD was a dream feeder. No faff in that girl.

Bed covers not wall covers. I really need that sleep!

Buses. When one finally arrives after a long wait, the person in front starts faffing around taking everything out of their handbag to find bus pass. Aaagggh!

Agree - I used to go to a Lidl where every.single.time I would end up at the checkout behind someone who looked quite honestly surprised when asked for payment at the end of their transaction, then had to spend hours fiddling through their bag, counting up their change...oh no, not quite enough, will have to pay by card...now where did I put my card. It was honestly as though the concept of having to pay for their goods before leaving had never occurred to them.

And the subset of faffers - the sudden stoppers. Meander along a busy street, then just when you see a gap and try to over take they screech (as much as one can screech if already only travelling 0.1 mph) to a halt and you nearly bump into them as they stand there gormlessly contemplating their next move. Extra points for those that do it at the top of an escalator, or right outside a shop door, causing a tailback behind them of irritated normal walkers.

Oh I think I've found my favourite mumsnet thread. I am YourHandInMyHand and I bloody hate faffers!!!

I am a rusher, I am inpatient, I am organised and efficient.

I am patient with little people and can walk around holding the hand of a toddler, walking slowly and stopping to look at every leaf, so I'm not totally joyless. I also have a child with special needs and appreciate some people have circumstances where they do need a little extra time with things but I reach a level of blind fury at cash machines, post office queues, shop tills, etc. I just don't get what takes the majority of the population so LONG!

My mum does the faffing to go out thing too, and always has done. Even a s child I remember feeling impatient with her about it.

Ah .... I feel better for getting that out of my system.

Escalator faffers are the worst, followed by cash machine faffers. Gives me the rage!

Can it advise OP that you never ever in your life attempt Cambridge park and ride. You might have to kill someone.

I was there today. Not much faffing, but then I think that I was outside peak hours. So expensive now though. I don't think I'll bother going back to Cambridge again as it's so expensive.

And yes to people faffing in public loos. Not everyone can have IBS and other such stuff.

People who's faffing is more important than your faffing.

Therefore, I'm stood about waiting for DH, DD1 or 2 they are doing something important. If I'm last I was faffing about.

Car park in Tewksbury is also guaranteed to raise the blood pressure ££££ and a ridiculous put in your registration machine with the a totally non standard key board - alphabet and numbers in vertical columns.

It's crackers, even organised people faff.

Totally agree with you.

We went out for lunch today to a local pub. One lady serving big queue of people. Woman in front of me. Turns out she is ordering for 6 people. She knew all their main meals but didn't know what they wanted with it e.g. chips, salad etc. For every persons meal she shouted across the pub to ask each person. Then onto drinks again didn't know what to order shouting across to others. Eventually time to pay faffing with bag looking for her purse like it's a surprise she needed to pay.

Can't abide faffers. My DH is a faffer but insists on calling it fathing which enrages me even more.

It annoys me when the person being served in the shop waits until their items have been scanned and the cashier has told them how much it'll be before then asking for some days, then some chewing gum, then a scratch card, then one of the items on offer next to the till... and on and on before finally paying and buggering off. I feel like shouting atc them to ask for everything all at the same time!
And yy to those people who look like they're trying to reprogram the cash machine - just hurry up!

I think we need to create our own country, there will be Faff Screen upon entry.

I think faffers and ditherers should be banned from the supermarkets between certain times so people with better things to do can get shit done.
I swear, asda is a great cure for low blood pressure.

I am fine with elderly faffers as there are any number of reasons for their faffing - arthritic fingers/wrists and other body parts, eyesight getting worse etc. I'm also fine with anyone else who has a reason for their faffing. It's just general faffers with no cause for their faffing that makes me want to strangle them.

In addition to Moins Faff Screening, Fit and healthy faffers with no mitigating factors such as dyspraxia etc, need to be fined and sent on a "faffing awareness course" imo.

The most annoying for me are those who faff and chat to person on the till in supermarkets when there is a HUMUMGOUS bloody great queue behind them. OK if you are the only person at the till and no one is waiting then chat away, but otherwise just pay, say thanks and sod off.

Thing is, I'll take as looooooooooong as it suits me (and then some) the moment I hear that slight hiss between the teeth, draw in of breath, or see the irritated clench, finger tap or any other indication I'm stealing precious micro seconds from Mr/Mrs 'My time is sooooo much more important than yours'. One of life's small pleasures.

I think we have to differentiate between just faffing about. Say in the loo and faffing as lack of anticipation, as in you know you'll need the bus pass/Oyster/money.

Still annoying though.

I don't know any 'elderly faffers', I haven't seen any either. Maybe because I have a higher tolerance for elderly people, I just don't see it. In fact, I probably look like some kind of crook as I'm practically guarding them at cashpoints like some kind of line-backer and hover about them in shops to see if they need help/hindrance from me.

Note to self... must be more patient generally and stop harassing elderly people going about their business...